These classic photos recreated in Lego and photographed by Mike Stimpson made me chuckle. More here.
Category Archives: Art
Geeky by Nature
We attended the first part of Geeky by Nature yesterday here in NYC, a conference “exploring the best in art, code & design.” The day was filled with great presentations, the highlights for us being Joshua Hirsch from Big Spaceship, Hillman Curtis and his upcoming Stefan Sagmeister film, and Joshua Davis including his interactive graphics for IBM’s Watson. But, our absolute favorite talk was given by Hellicar & Lewis. Apart from being incredibly smart and talented, this team of UK interaction designers (Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis) is witty, appealing, and immensely inspiring. The images above are stills from work on their site. I highly recommend that you look at some of their videos to get a taste of what they do. Brilliant!
Vintage Collections
I think it’s time to start collecting old objects in series. I really love the way they look together. from Lost Found Art
Dig: Installation and Performance
“Dig is an installation and performance by Daniel Arsham/Snarkitecture
at Storefront for Art and Architecture and made possible by OHWOW that explores the architecture of excavation.
Installation. The gallery will be filled almost in its totality with EPS architectural foam, then excavated with simple tools to transform the material into an unexpected cavern. (March 29 – April 4)
Performance. In the final stage, Arsham/Snarkitecture will both create and inhabit Dig for the duration of the installation (April 23). There will be excursions by invitation only, but people will be able to view the performance from the street. More details here. via Creative Everyone
I’m No Banksy
iPhone photographer Aik Beng Chia created a series of photos he calls I’m No Banksy. He photographed people on the streets of Singapore and then used two apps (Blender and Cross Process) to combine them with Banksy’s images.
via mymodernmet
Plastic Bag Installation
This beautiful installation was part of a workshop at the Lund School of Architecture in Sweden taught by Theodore Sarantoglou Lalis, Dora Sweijd and David Erkan. The mission was “to build a geometry with a component.” The participating students, (Emilia Thurin Melin . Karin Backlund . Kim Öhrström . Alexander Carlén . David Ottosson . Emanuel Kjellberg . Filip Mayer . Johan Svartnäs . Petter Nilsson . Robert Janson), constructed the installation using plastic bags and colored lights. Very dramatic. More at Robert Janson’s site. via notcot
The Blue Trees
Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos’ Blue Trees installations are part of the Vancouver Biennale. The blue forests will be created in the City of Richmond, Port Moody, as well as West Vancouver, and the artist hopes that his work will be part of a larger international discussion with blue forests in cities worldwide. “Each year an area at least the size of Belgium of native forests is cleared from around the planet. So much a part of our daily lives, they are the lungs of the planet and attention must be paid.”
Apparently, the color used on the trees is biologically safe pigmented water. As an ephemeral artwork, the color will naturally degrade and the trees gradually revert to their natural state. More information here. via Poppytalk
Alberto de Pedro
From Madrid, street artist Alberto de Pedro pasted a large photo of a detailed, decrepit interior on a detailed, decrepit door. Cool effect. via Colossal
Interaction Design: Studio Roosegaarde
Daan Roosegaarde and his team of designers and engineers comprise Studio Roosegaarde. Together they create interactive artworks that instinctively respond to sound and movement, exploring the dynamic relation between space, people, and technology. Incredibly fascinating and at the same time very beautiful. From top to bottom:
FLOW is a smart wall composed of hundreds of ventilators that interact with passing visitors.
Sustainable Dance Floor (SDF) is an interactive floor which generates elecricity through the act of dancing.
LOTUS is a living wall composed of smart foils that fold open in response to human behavior.
DUNE is an interactive landscape that brightens according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors.
More information, photos, and videos on all of these projects are available here.
Wearable Foods by Sung Yeon Ju
Korean artist Sung Yeon Ju made these dresses from fruits and vegetables as part of an ongoing project of constructed art forms made with food that she started two years ago. (Click on photo for more detail.)
“This series of her work forces viewers to defy the actual meaning, the functionalities, and the aspects of what clothing signifies in our lives. The essence of clothing and food has been reinterpreted. Each element does not fulfill its own role and yet, each suggests an unconventional and even contradicting role – un-wearable clothing that is made out of the materials that do not last.”
via Trendland
3D Screw Portraits
Andrew Meyers, an artist based in California, creates these sculptural paintings using thousands of screws and varying their depths, then painting each individual head, creating a 3D effect. More here.
Rotary Phone Sheep Sculptures
I thought these were quite clever, especially for a telecommunications museum. Jean Luc Cornec’s sheep are on exhibit at the Museum of Communication in Frankfurt. via lo Spremiagrumi.
Double Happiness
Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.
Designed by French-Portuguese architect Didier Faustino. Urban reanimation device. Recycled billboard space.Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture. via Broken City.
Tara Donovan: Pins & Mylar at Pace
Being a longtime fan of Tara Donovan’s work, I was especially happy to learn of her two shows at two different Pace Galleries in NYC these past two months. The top two (I’m noticing a lot of “twos” in this post) images are from her nickel-plated steel pin drawings at the 25th St. gallery. The bottom image is of her mylar sculpture “Untitled (Mylar) 2011” which takes up most of the space at the 22nd St. location.
To see some of Donovan’s other works look here.
Mentalgassi
Flip and fency images at Sala B Galley in Barcelona.
More images at Mentalgassi.
Felice Varini
I’ve just discovered the mind-blowing Felice Varini. What looks like a Photoshopped translucent pattern layered over a photo are actually painted walls, floors, ceilings (and any other objects that get in his way) resulting in the optical illusion. He’s been creating these for over 30 years and there are so many that it’s hard to choose which ones to post. I suggest you look at them all here.
via art.is.analogue.
Morning After Portraits
“The morning after portraits are portraits of people in front of their medicine cabinets or in their local pharmacies with hangovers, migraines, morning sickness and other maladies self-inflicted or bestowed by nature. When viewed from afar, the portraits can be read as a whole image. As one moves closer, the image begins to break down and the individual capsule pixels become more dominant.”
By Andy Diaz Hope via designboom.
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